Thanks for the reminder Eric. I'm gonna talk to John Osena about increasing our storage space. Hahaha...
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM, eric pareja <eric.par...@gmail.com> wrote: > Whatever tech you decide to use, don't underestimate the importance of > backups. Your backup schedule and strategy should reflect the > importance of the data that you are backing up. Also make sure that > you have off-site backup. > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Michael Janapin > <michael.jana...@gmail.com> wrote: >> @holden >> Thanks for the info. I'll be in Manila this weekend. I might swing by >> Gilmore to check it out. >> >> @jijo >> I'd setup a temporary sata raid one while waiting for that SSD. Thanks for >> the input. >> >> Thanks guys. Greatly appreciate your help. >> >> Michael Janapin >> PBTS Baguio City >> http://mulingsilang.wordpress.com >> sent from my Android >> >> On Jan 17, 2011 2:02 PM, "Federico Sevilla III" <j...@fs3.ph> wrote: >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> If you can do this using SATA it's more convenient because the drives >>> are more current, and because there are usually more available SATA >>> ports without any performance penalties attached to using them. >>> >>> With IDE you introduce the problem of contention for controller time. >>> Both your drives need to be masters on the primary and secondary >>> controllers, and if one of the controllers also has an optical drive it >>> negatively affects performance of the entire array. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> -- >>> Federico Sevilla III, CISSP, CSM, LPIC-2 >>> Chief Executive Officer >>> F S 3 Consulting Inc. >>> http://www.fs3.ph >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:55 +0800, Michael Janapin wrote: >>>> @holden, >>>> Thanks. Flying to Davao sounds very appealing... especially on >>>> company's subsidy. Lol. >>>> >>>> @Jijo >>>> I'm actually thinking of doing that. Would IDEs on Raid 1 be any >>>> better? >>>> >>>> Michael Janapin >>>> PBTS Baguio City >>>> http://mulingsilang.wordpress.com >>>> sent from my Android >>>> >>>> On Jan 17, 2011 1:43 PM, "Federico Sevilla III" <j...@fs3.ph> wrote: >>>> > Hi Michael, >>>> > >>>> > You may also want to consider an "old fashioned" approach: 2 x SATA >>>> in >>>> > software RAID 1 + regular (weekly at the least) backups to an >>>> external >>>> > USB storage device. >>>> > >>>> > Cheers! >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Federico Sevilla III, CISSP, CSM, LPIC-2 >>>> > Chief Executive Officer >>>> > F S 3 Consulting Inc. >>>> > http://www.fs3.ph >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:30 +0800, Michael Janapin wrote: >>>> >> Hello guys, >>>> >> After our SATA failure over the weekend, It's very traumatic to go >>>> >> into that again. >>>> >> So I would like to know if there is a local supplier for SSDs? >>>> >> Specifically, I'm looking at OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5" >>>> 120GB >>>> >> SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD). >>>> >> >>>> >> Thanks. >>>> >> >>>> >>>> _________________________________________________ >>>> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >>>> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >>>> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > > > > -- > Eric Manuel Pareja (eric.par...@gmail.com) LPIC-2, NCLP | PGP/GPG Key > 0xB82E42D9 > Coordinator for Technology - National Telehealth Center > University of the Philippines Manila > Senior Linux Trainer - International Open Source Network - ASEAN+3 > Ang mundo ay aklat, at iisang pahina lamang ang nababasa ng hindi naglalakbay. > - San Agustin > わかよたれぞ つねならむ > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- Michael R. Janapin PBTS Baguio City, Philippines http://mulingsilang.wordpress.com http://www.pbts.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
